Day: November 10, 2015

  • What are what you drink

    What are what you drink

    I don’t want to be on the perch of preaching. But I did want to share something you should see.. there are horrors in the world of food as much as news and entertainment. Proof in the pudding: This video from the Master Vegan which shows what coffee creamer REALLY looks like and what ingredients go into it to insure you don’t see it in the natural state.Drink up!

     [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhJAa9PN_8U&feature=player_embedded]

  • Pluto wackiness 

    Pluto wackiness 

    Science textbook writers: You may as well stop now. You will never get ahead of the great Dwarf named Pluto. 

    New scientific revelations claim these startling and amazing potential facts: There are volcanoes on Pluto, there are strange moons that don’t act as they should as they move in unpredictable patterns, and the mountains on the faraway dwarf—even the largest—is floating on a sea of nitrogen. Now how cool is that?

    The details can be found in NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC. It’s an article worth the read. (http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/11/151109-astronomy-pluto-nasa-new-horizons-volcano-moons-science/) 

    Scientists aren’t yet willing and ready to make conclusions. If they do there’s big implications. Implications already seen: Everything you have learned about Pluto was and may still be wrong…

     

  • Pluto wackiness

    Pluto wackiness

    Science textbook writers: You may as well stop now. You will never get ahead of the great Dwarf named Pluto. 

    New scientific revelations claim these startling and amazing potential facts: There are volcanoes on Pluto, there are strange moons that don’t act as they should as they move in unpredictable patterns, and the mountains on the faraway dwarf—even the largest—is floating on a sea of nitrogen. Now how cool is that?

    The details can be found in NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC. It’s an article worth the read. (http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/11/151109-astronomy-pluto-nasa-new-horizons-volcano-moons-science/) 

    Scientists aren’t yet willing and ready to make conclusions. If they do there’s big implications. Implications already seen: Everything you have learned about Pluto was and may still be wrong…

     

  • The ‘routine’ Trident test: Military prowess or social media?

    The ‘routine’ Trident test: Military prowess or social media?

    There have been varied opinions from a lot of sources.. People confused by the recent missile tests—one Saturday night that lit up the sky over the West Coast and another one yesterday during daytime hours, obviously without the fanfare a night test would bring. 

    The Navy was forced into admitting that they set off a Trident missile for what they labeled a “routine” test. The routine nature of the situation is questionable. Routine? When an entire area around Los Angeles is put into a de facto no fly zone? Routine, when you launch a missile during the evening hours for eyewitnesses to see and become freaked out collectively? Routine? When you launch a missile that typically has a nuclear payload? 

    An article by Peter Holley in the Washington POST describes what I also wonder (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2015/11/09/california-missile-test-social-media-nightmare-or-exactly-what-the-navy-wanted/) :

    Did the Navy think the test would go largely unnoticed by the public? Did officials underestimate social media’s ability to turn a routine event into front-page fodder?

    Or was that the plan all along, using the inevitable influence of social media to flex America’s military might for observers in Beijing and Moscow?

    The conclusion that Holley makes: It’s complicated.. 

    Some may wonder if this whole thing was something more than a test of military prowess but also a trigger of social media triggering.. How war in the social media era may work.. How an entire city seeing missile strikes could potentially go to Twitter or Facebook and describe it for the masses.. Maybe this was seeing what the implications were when closely associated with densely populated areas. After all, most of the places that see this missile fly into the night sky were cities filled with people out and about for Saturday night social hours..

    And what message is being sent? Beyond the borders of America? To China, perhaps. That nation has developed its Navy and is upgrading. We may not have done the same at the pace they have.. but perhaps we’re showing a missile of defiance in the night sky. As the sun sets on America. Perhaps our Navy timed it perfectly at that minute to showcase that the land of the Rising Sun isn’t the world’s leader yet.

     Military games across the world.

    Sure feels like World War III’s chess pieces are all lining up in the predicted location.